Eighties Housekeeper Little Wife

Chapter 30 - 030 Book-selling turmoil



Jiang Lili, with the mentality of watching a joke, saw that these 500 English books could not be sold. Other publishing houses in Wucheng, especially other publishing houses that received this book’s submissions before, also received news.

Most of the previous publishing houses were not optimistic about the content of Chen Yuan’s book. When they saw Huayu Culture Publishing House and Chen Yuan signing a contract, everyone watched with a cold eye, feeling that Huayu Culture was no wonder the benefits would be bad.

As far as their editor-in-chief continues to operate in such a random manner, publishing books by lesser-known authors, the benefits will become less and less. If Huayu Culture can’t make any progress this year, it will close sooner or later.

Liu Chuan, the editor-in-chief of Huayu Culture, is also under a lot of pressure. After all, their benefits are very bad. Because of the publication of this English book, there have been several conflicts among their own people.

The economic benefits of the publishing house are not good. If it continues to develop like this, it is possible that it will not be able to continue to support it in two or three years.

Once the publishing house goes bankrupt, everyone will lose their jobs. Now it seems calm, but everyone knows the extent of the losses. The publishing house is just doing the final struggle step by step.

After Liu Chuan took over the position of editor-in-chief, the publishing house has already suffered serious losses, and he has tried many ways to save it, but it is of no use.

I have always wanted to save the publishing house. Now, when I see Chen Yuan’s book, I also have the attitude of giving it a try. In fact, without this book, the publishing house will close down sooner or later. Just speed up its lifespan.

There are some people in the publishing house, even if they know that it will close down sooner or later, but now they just want to be euthanized peacefully. wasted on an English book.

Even if only 500 copies are published, if he fails, Liu Chuan will still be condemned, and it is very likely that the publishing house will close down in the future, and he will become a sinner. on the body.

When Liu Chuan was in a state of uncertainty, a few editors outside walked in angrily and said.

“Editor Liu, we jointly protest against the cancellation of the publication of the book by the author Chen Yuan.”

Liu Chuan frowned and refused directly: “Impossible, we have already signed a contract.”

The editors were very angry: “What, if something goes wrong, can you bear the loss, Editor-in-Chief Liu?”

Liu Chuan said: “Anyway, this matter must have nothing to do with you. Just take care of your own affairs and finish your work? Are you so leisurely?”

He glanced at these familiar faces. They were all black sheep in the publishing house. These people are harmful to the publishing house, but the current state of the publishing house simply cannot stand a big change, and if they change it forcibly, they will not be able to recruit new people to replace them. There are vacancies, so Liu Chuan has been patient with these people, and if there is a chance, he will remove them all.

The editors also said: “Editor Liu, if you are so determined, if you lose at that time, then we can’t agree, you must promise to bear it yourself.”

Liu Chuan sneered: “If there is any loss, I have to bear it personally. Does that mean that the publishing house has to give me all the money? Don’t think that I don’t know what you people are thinking. To tell you the truth, this book will definitely be published. It will hinder your work, but if you continue to make trouble, it will be treated as absenteeism today.”

When a few people heard it, their faces were very ugly, but they didn’t dare to continue making trouble. They were still unconvinced. This Liu Chuan’s temper was getting bigger and bigger, and he didn’t know what gave him the confidence to wait until the English book really didn’t sell. Go out and see what he is arrogant about? At that time, it will be too late to cry, and now it is rumored that if the book can be sold, the sows will be able to climb trees. Editor-in-chief Liu really wants to be a sinner of Huayu Culture.

Liu Chuan has been under pressure for more than a month, and finally published Chen Yuan’s English book. The cover of the book “How to Learn English” is a yellow book cover with the title of the author and the name of the editor-in-chief. The address of the publishing house, as well as the book number and other information, is printed on the promotional card on the outer packaging: “The easiest way to learn English in history, let your child learn English in one minute.”

Just after the book was printed, Liu Chuan showed the finished product to Chen Yuan. Chen Yuan was very satisfied and very satisfied. Several other parents, including Fang Cuiping, also agreed with it, and they all agreed with their relatives, friends, and classmates and colleagues. publicity.

But as soon as the slogan on this book came out, Jiang Lili knew about it and mocked her fiercely. She didn’t dare to publicize the simplest method in history. How dare Liu Chuan dare to say this? In other words, the author is still a vocational high school student, which can make people laugh out loud.

Jiang Lili feels that she is not in the same class as this kind of person. If you really compare her, I am afraid she will lose her identity. The composition book she is busy with will be published in the next few days. I know that the sky is high and the earth is thick, and the young people have never been beaten by their peers.

Liu Chuan said that the whole journey was not smooth, and he ran into obstacles many times. He wanted to sell Chen Yuan’s book to the bookstore, but only a few small bookstores were willing to take his face and accept ten or eight less.

Big bookstores didn’t even look at them, they were rejected immediately, and they had no choice but to start with small bookstores and slowly promote them.

Fang Cuiping and several parents of the students, as well as Jiang Yuexiang, Sister Wu and Zhao Yan, bought 50 copies directly, mainly to sell to the people around them. Relatives and friends were also disgusted at first, but after a long time, they will always be curious or accept it. , and gradually saw the effect.

Zhao Yan recommended it to their school’s English teacher. She doesn’t teach English herself, but she absolutely agrees with the content of this book. Some teachers don’t believe it and forget about it after taking the book. Some teachers promise to read it. Look.

From this point of view, people who are knowledgeable will naturally feel that the content of this book is really good.

A fifth-grade English teacher named Feng Yu brought the content of this book to the classroom, and the children received it well. After a class, she felt unfinished, and they even pestered her to ask how to play English games. Because of the inaccurate pronunciation of the phonetic symbols, the children feel anxious to play games with other students, and they are determined to learn English well, which is something that has never happened before.

Feng Yu deeply realized how powerful this book is. Its charm can conquer all children. The reason why children resisted learning before was because learning was boring and some children could fall asleep in class. All because learning doesn’t attract them.

So what has always been compulsory and oppressive learning, the homework left every day, most of the children are also under pressure to complete, if told them not to leave homework, these children may be very happy, but today she finished it After the class, the children had obvious active learning and made changes.

In this book, there are many, many learning games. The methods of the games are very interesting, but they can only be played by multiple people. If you want to play the games, you must know the pronunciation and spelling of English words. Some children can’t I was very anxious. Everyone can participate in playing games. It is the first time for the top students in the class to play this game. Everyone is fair and there is no sense of gap, so it is more attractive to children who want to learn English well.

None of the children Feng Yu has taught in history has been so keen to pester her to ask questions. When the bell rang after class, none of the children left. It seems that she can really use the teaching methods in this book often in the future.

This book is absolutely good stuff.

The parents of grade 5 found a miraculous phenomenon when they came back from get off work today, that is, their children started to memorize English on their own initiative. If you can’t memorize words, you can only watch when you play with your classmates, so you work hard and learn the English you need.

Parents actually don’t know what English games are, and what this teaching method means. They just see that children have learned to learn by themselves, they don’t need to force them to learn, and they don’t need to be disciplined. This is a good thing, and it is worthy of encouragement and praise.

Feng Yu’s class, after a long time, all the students have improved their grades, which has attracted the collective attention of school leaders and parents. In order to express the special case of awarding outstanding teachers, Feng Yu’s bonus this month has also increased by 30%. When other teachers saw Feng Yu’s situation, they were all jealous and hurried to ask her what method she used, why everyone was at the same level, and the average grades in the class were similar, why did she improve so much.

This is closely related to bonuses and ratings. Other teachers are naturally very enthusiastic, but I didn’t expect that when I asked, it was actually the credit of an English book.

This book was written by a parent of a third-grade student. After learning the news, all the teachers were shocked. The third-grade teachers were not surprised. Only Huang Ru was very angry. Why is there Chen Yuan everywhere? It’s really annoying.

The teachers started running to the big bookstores all over the city, frantically searching for the book.

In the famous East China Bookstore in Quanwucheng, there are two teachers from Wucheng Primary School at the entrance to ask the staff of the bookstore: “Do you have the book “How to Learn English” here?”

The book shop people are confused, where have they heard of this kind of book: “No, no.”

Teacher: “Ah, why don’t you have such a good book in such a big bookstore?”

“Don’t mean we don’t have one.”

The same scene is also being staged in West China and North China Bookstores: “Is there “How to Learn English”?” “No.”

“Hey, I have gone to three bookstores, but none of them are sold. If I can’t find it again, I can only go to the publishing house of Huayu Culture and ask.”

When several major bookstores were asked by customers for the first time, they didn’t take it seriously, but if twenty customers came to ask about the whereabouts of this book at the same time within a day, the leaders of the bookstores would take it seriously, and they would all be curious about what happened. How could a book be so appealing to customers?

The teacher of Wucheng Elementary School finally found a few scattered copies of “How to Learn English” in the small bookstore, but these books are not enough for their school teachers to share, not to mention that parents heard that they would buy them, and teachers from other elementary schools also heard the news. For a time, the books on the market were all divided up.

And the supply is in short supply, and many people are looking for it everywhere. After a few bookstores asked their staff, they found that Huayu Culture had published a book “How to Learn English” before, but because the content of this book was not very good If it is confiscated, the leaders are furious. If the content is not good, why would customers be so eager to buy it? People don’t even want to push the door on their own initiative, and the ducks up to their mouths can fly.

If you take over a few hundred copies, will you be able to sell it now?

Liu Chuan was worried that the book could not be sold, and several employees came to sneer at the hot wind again: “Editor Liu, I told you not to publish this book, but you didn’t listen, and now you regret it, there are still 400 copies in the warehouse that can’t be sold. Go out, are you out of pocket?”

Liu Chuan was so aggrieved, but he couldn’t say anything, rubbing his temples with worry, but it was a fact that the book didn’t sell well, and it was really difficult for him to refute it.

Just as several employees were jeering, Liu Chuan’s assistant suddenly ran in from the outside and said with a smile on his face.

“Editor Liu, the owners of several major bookstores in East China, North China, West China, and South China are all here. They said they want to order “How to Learn English”!”

Liu Chuan was overjoyed when he heard the words. He mocked his editors with stiff smiles before, and heard someone say, “What? Just four hundred? This number is too small, and it’s not enough for a few of our bookstores to stuff their teeth between their teeth.”


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